How to Tell the Difference Between a Verb, Adjective, Adverb, and Noun
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I love to write
And I have a gift for spelling.
But I’m not good at the subject of English.
In school, I liked to participate in spelling bees and loved to write poetry and stories for my assignments. But I never could remember the rules. I just wrote and it seemed like I understood the rules. They came naturally to me.
I’m not saying this to be arrogant. I don’t know how I know. But I would not make a good English teacher.
For example, I am a co-editor with Janis Cox and Bett Harris of the publication Koinonia. As part of this job, we are to help writers with properly capitalizing their titles.
Writers are given a short explanation of what words to capitalize using the simple AP Old style. Here is what they are told:
Quick and easy is: first and last words of the title.
Plus, all verbs,
adjectives,
adverbs,
proper nouns, and
ALL words with 4 or more letters.No short prepositions. If they’re over 4 letters (Among, Between, Since, etc.), then yes.
And no conjunctions if they’re less than 4 letters. For example, “After” and…
